Every page on this site makes one promise: nothing here overstates its evidence. This page shows the machinery that keeps that promise: from the source witnesses, through an engine that makes each of them answer the same question about every word, to the gates a chapter must pass before it is allowed to ship.
Seven witnesses in, six generated surfaces out (three studies stand beside them), and every claim in between wears its source and its tier. The stages below walk the same chart in detail.
No witness is treated as the original, and no witness is quietly promoted. Each one enters the pipeline under its own name, with its own limits on what it may claim.
The SBLGNT: the same Greek that stands behind every major English Bible. Every reading starts here; every claim is keyed to a Greek word. The base is never replaced.
The Syriac gospels, consulted for every single word of all four Gospels. A witness to the Aramaic: never the original, and never the basis of a reading on its own.
An earlier Syriac witness, kept deliberately on a short leash: consulted, but never allowed to count as independent evidence until an independently aligned edition is ingested. One honest witness, not two.
When Yeshua quotes the Torah or the prophets, the words underneath are Hebrew. The 88 Old Testament quotations render from the Hebrew source, with any divergence disclosed, never silently corrected.
The full Sokoloff DJPA parse is woven into the corpus: 532 joins, kept separate as 448 exact-headword and 84 root-family matches. The 155 ambiguous candidates were resolved by a two-model screen with orchestrator adjudication: 116 were promoted to exact, 8 to root-family, and 31 were left unjoined. Exact DJPA badges now appear on 421 entries, up from 107. Root-family matches never inherit that badge, and earlier per-entry provenance stays unchanged. By occurrence, most content words in the glossary now carry a Palestinian Aramaic or DJPA label (64.5%); the Peshitta remains the word-choice engine and the shown form.
Published Aramaic reconstructions (Casey, Fitzmyer, Black, Jeremias, Dalman among them), each weighed on its evidence. No single scholar is treated as authoritative.
The felt-sense of the core vocabulary, decided word by word by a human reader and locked on the record: the layer where reign replaced kingdom and turn back replaced repent.
And one caution layer over all of it: 21 documented patterns of Syriac translator habit (Williams, 2004) filter what Syriac-only evidence is admitted to claim.
Every source named here is cited and linked, edition by edition, on the sources page.
Woven in 2026-07-18: a full Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon dialect-tag layer — each word’s card now names the Western or Palestinian dialects that attest it (1,171 words carry a dialect attestation, 465 in the Galilean corpus itself); and a Louw–Nida semantic-domain layer over the Greek (a domain code on ~1,172 words), for the renderings that read directly from the Greek. Both are label layers: they corroborate a word, never govern its choice or tier. Transcribed, weave held for correct alignment: the Lewis–Gibson 1899 Christian Palestinian Aramaic Gospel lectionary (the closest surviving relative of Galilean; all 318 pages transcribed in-house by two independent vision passes, 51 gospel pages gated for 5,768 tokens). Mapping each lection line to its exact verse is a real alignment problem — a first attempt placed readings correctly only at each lection’s opening — so the per-verse witness is held for a proper Greek-anchored aligner rather than shipped with errors.
The question is always the same: what Aramaic most likely stood beneath this Greek word, and how surely do we know it? The engines exist to keep the answer honest.
All four Gospels (89 chapters, 3,779 verses), word by word. Each word becomes a token carrying up to 57 fields of evidence: the Greek, the Syriac, the Palestinian Aramaic where attested, the gloss, the tier, the provenance.
Glossary entries are built only on strict Aramaic root joins. If a root cannot be established, the entry does not exist. No smearing across verses; no Greek-only ghosts.
Felt-sense entries are drafted by ten independent agents and merged. Disagreement is kept visible and carried forward, not averaged away.
The machine builds; the human decides. Durable human edits (94 of them so far) override the machine everywhere and survive every rebuild intact.
Every claim wears its source on its sleeve: “PA attested” only on an exact form-match; otherwise a Peshitta or Syriac witness, and said so. Nothing is ever labeled simply “Galilean.” The Palestinian Aramaic and DJPA layers label and corroborate each word; they do not set its tier or choose its English.
Where a witness is silent, the cell shows a · gap, never a guess. The data never overstates itself.
The evidence places each word on a four-rung ladder, and the rung decides which language governs the English. The tier expresses how much we know, not how much we wish we knew.
Fifteen dated rounds of read-aloud revision across all 89 chapters, every decision logged with its reasons and with what it superseded. The voice is a record, not a mood.
43 of those decisions are encoded as machine-checked rules and enforced corpus-wide on every rebuild. A rendering that breaks a settled decision cannot ship by accident.
Flagged glossary senses are cross-examined by two independent AI models: GPT‑5.5 and Claude. A fix lands only where both agree; where they disagree, the question goes to the human.
Every chapter is checked verse-for-verse against canonical versification: nothing missing, nothing repeated, nothing out of order, and the critical text’s known omissions are disclosed, not papered over. The built editions are audited line by line, and the Audio narration script (the Word document) must be pure voice text: no verse numbers, no headings, nothing but the words meant for the ear. The web Audio view adds only chapter markers, for navigation.
The reading text and its full apparatus are built from the same data, cross-linked in both directions, and published together. What you read and what it rests on are never separated.
Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, rendered whole and confidence-ranked: read it, and press play to listen along, verse by verse.
Talk-along rows under every verse: Aramaic first, each evidence layer a toggle, every word carrying its tier.
The felt-sense reference, grouped by Aramaic root, every occurrence linked back to the verse it lives in.
All four Gospels drawn as a single network of embodied Aramaic sense-domains.
English, Aramaic transliteration, Syriac, or Greek. Every hit linked to its interlinear verse.
Both editions of each Gospel as .docx, free to download and carry with you.
Why Aramaic at all · the four words beneath “save” · the Hebrew inside the quotations · how much Galilean is really here.
The surfaces are checked against each other on every build: 50,395 glossary→verse references and 27,006 interlinear word-links, verified with zero broken anchors.